Ethics of Life (eBook)

Contemporary Iberian Debates

Katarzyna Beilin, William Viestenz (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
376 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-2093-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Debates on the ethics of life in Spain in a time of economic and ecological crisis

---

The contributors ask the following questions: What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change? How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons? What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology? What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?Hispanic Issues SeriesNicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-ChiefHispanic Issues Onlinehispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Inhalt

IntroductionGenealogies of Ecological and Animal Rights Movements in Modern and Contemporary IberiaThe Environment in Literature and the Arts in SpainCarmen Flys-Junquera and Tonia Raquejo GradoNunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige DisasterJohn TrevathanEcological Crisis and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Public SpaceTourism and 'Quality of Life' at the End of Franco's DictatorshipEugenia AfinoguénovaDie and Laugh in the Anthropocene: Disquieting Realism and Dark Humor in Biutiful and Nocilla experienceKatarzyna BeilinCultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis MadridMatthew Feinberg and Susan LarsonDegrowth and Ecological Economics in Twenty-first-Century Spain: Toward a Posthumanist EconomyLuis PrádanosIberian Bio-Power: Life as a Political MatterReproductive Rights in Spain: From 'Abortion Tourism' to 'Reproductive Destination'Pablo de LoraMar adentro and the Question of FreedomPaul BeginStill Different? Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture in SpainSainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna BeilinReassembling the Archive through the Concept of LifeIberian Cultural Studies beyond the Human: Exploring the Life History of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja in Spanish Anthropology and Popular FilmDaniel AresThe Bull Also Rises: The Political Redemption of the Beast in La pell de brau by Salvador EspriuWilliam ViestenzAnimals in Contemporary Spanish NewspapersJohn BeusterienAccounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War and Spain's Political PresentSebastiaan FaberAfterwordSpain: Taking the Alternative?Martín López-Vega and Luis Martín-Estudillo

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Issues
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Issues
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Hispanic Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-2093-6 / 0826520936
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-2093-7 / 9780826520937